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DNS and BIND, 4th Edition
By Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: April 2001
ISBN	: 0-596-00158-4
Pages	: 622

Preface

Versions

What's New in the Fourth Edition?

Organization

Audience

Obtaining the Example Programs

Contacting O'Reilly

Conventions Used in This Book

Quotations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Background

Section 1.1. A (Very) Brief History of the Internet

Section 1.2. On the Internet and internets

Section 1.3. The Domain Name System in a Nutshell

Section 1.4. The History of BIND

Section 1.5. Must I Use DNS?

Chapter 2. How Does DNS Work?

Section 2.1. The Domain Name Space

Section 2.2. The Internet Domain Name Space

Section 2.3. Delegation

Section 2.4. Name Servers and Zones

Section 2.5. Resolvers

Section 2.6. Resolution

Section 2.7. Caching

Chapter 3. Where Do I Start?

Section 3.1. Getting BIND

Section 3.2. Choosing a Domain Name

Chapter 4. Setting Up BIND

Section 4.1. Our Zone

Section 4.2. Setting Up Zone Data

Section 4.3. Setting Up a BIND Configuration File

Section 4.4. Abbreviations

Section 4.5. Host Name Checking (BIND 4.9.4 and Later Versions)

Section 4.6. Tools

Section 4.7. Running a Primary Master Name Server

Section 4.8. Running a Slave Name Server

Section 4.9. Adding More Zones

Section 4.10. What Next?

Chapter 5. DNS and Electronic Mail

Section 5.1. MX Records

Section 5.2. What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?

Section 5.3. The MX Algorithm

Chapter 6. Configuring Hosts

Section 6.1. The Resolver

Section 6.2. Sample Resolver Configurations

Section 6.3. Minimizing Pain and Suffering

Section 6.4. Vendor -Specific Options

Chapter 7. Maintaining BIND

Section 7.1. Controlling the Name Server

Section 7.2. Updating Zone Data Files

Section 7.3. Organizing Your Files

Section 7.4. Changing System File Locations in BIND 8 and 9

Section 7.5. Logging in BIND 8 and 9

Section 7.6. Keeping Everything Running Smoothly

Chapter 8. Growing Your Domain

Section 8.1. How Many Name Servers?

Section 8.2. Adding More Name Servers

Section 8.3. Registering Name Servers

Section 8.4. Changing TTLs

Section 8.5. Planning for Disasters

Section 8.6. Coping with Disaster

Chapter 9. Parenting

Section 9.1. When to Become a Parent

Section 9.2. How Many Children?

Section 9.3. What to Name Your Children

Section 9.4. How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains

Section 9.5. Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains

Section 9.6. Good Parenting

Section 9.7. Managing the Transition to Subdomains

Section 9.8. The Life of a Parent

Chapter 10. Advanced Features

Section 10.1. Address Match Lists and ACLs

Section 10.2. DNS Dynamic Update

Section 10.3. DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification)

Section 10.4. Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR)

Section 10.5. Forwarding

Section 10.6. Views

Section 10.7. Round Robin Load Distribution

Section 10.8. Name Server Address Sorting

Section 10.9. Preferring Name Servers on Certain Networks

Section 10.10. A Nonrecursive Name Server

Section 10.11. Avoiding a Bogus Name Server

Section 10.12. System Tuning

Section 10.13. Compatibility

Section 10.14. The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing

Section 10.15. Addresses and Ports

Section 10.16. IPv6 Forward and Reverse Mapping

Chapter 11. Security

Section 11.1. TSIG

Section 11.2. Securing Your Name Server

Section 11.3. DNS and Internet Firewalls

Section 11.4. The DNS Security Extensions

Chapter 12. nslookup and dig

Section 12.1. Is nslookup a Good Tool?

Section 12.2. Interactive Versus Noninteractive

Section 12.3. Option Settings

Section 12.4. Avoiding the Search List

Section 12.5. Common Tasks

Section 12.6. Less Common Tasks

Section 12.7. Troubleshooting nslookup Problems

Section 12.8. Best of the Net

Section 12.9. Using dig

Chapter 13. Reading BIND Debugging Output

Section 13.1. Debugging Levels

Section 13.2. Turning On Debugging

Section 13.3. Reading Debugging Output

Section 13.4. The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 8)

Section 13.5. The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 9)

Section 13.6. Tools

Chapter 14. Troubleshooting DNS and BIND

Section 14.1. Is NIS Really Your Problem?

Section 14.2. Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

Section 14.3. Potential Problem List

Section 14.4. Transition Problems

Section 14.5. Interoperability and Version Problems

Section 14.6. TSIG Errors

Section 14.7. Problem Symptoms

Chapter 15. Programming with the Resolver and Name Server Library Routines

Section 15.1. Shell Script Programming with nslookup

Section 15.2. C Programming with the Resolver Library Routines

Section 15.3. Perl Programming with Net::DNS

Chapter 16. Miscellaneous

Section 16.1. Using CNAME Records

Section 16.2. Wildcards

Section 16.3. A Limitation of MX Records

Section 16.4. Dialup Connections

Section 16.5. Network Names and Numbers

Section 16.6. Additional Resource Records

Section 16.7. DNS and WINS

Section 16.8. DNS and Windows 2000

Appendix A. DNS Message Format and Resource Records

Section A.1. Master File Format

Section A.2. DNS Messages

Section A.3. Resource Record Data

Appendix B. BIND Compatibility Matrix

Appendix C. Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux

Section C.1. Instructions for BIND 8.2.3

Section C.2. Instructions for BIND 9.1.0

Appendix D. Top-Level Domains

Appendix E. BIND Name Server and Resolver Configuration

Section E.1. BIND Name Server Boot File Directives and Configuration File Statements

Section E.2. BIND 4 Boot File Directives

Section E.3. BIND 8 Configuration File Statements

Section E.4. BIND 9 Configuration File Statements

Section E.5. BIND Resolver Statements

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